descendants not to trouble Esau's descendants, and thus God told the Israelites, "You have circled . . . long enough (, rav)." Rav Hiyya bar Abin said in Rabbi Johanan's name that the words, "I have given Mount Seir to Esau for an inheritance," in establish that even idolaters inherit from their parents under Biblical law. The Gemara reported a challenge that perhaps Esau inherited because he was an apostate Jew. Rav Hiyya bar Abin thus argued that the words, "I have given Ar to the children of Lot as a heritage," in establish gentiles' right to inherit. Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba, citing Rabbi Johanan, taught that God rewards even polite speech. In , Lot's older daughter named her son Moab ("of my father"), and so in , God told Moses, "Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle"; God forbade only war with the Moabites, but the Israelites might harass them. In , in contrast, Lot's younger daughter named her son Ben-Ammi (the less shameful "son of my people"), and so in , God told Moses, "Harass them not, nor contend with them"; the Israelites were not to harass the Ammonites at all. Reading , "And the Lord spoke to me, ‘Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle,'" Ulla argued that it certainly could not have entered the mind of Moses to wage war without God's authorization. So we must deduce that Moses on his own reasoned that if in the case of the Midianites who came only to assist the Moabites (in ), God commanded (in ), "Vex the Midianites and smite them," in the case of the Moabites themselves, the same injunction should apply even more strongly. But God told Moses that the idea that Moses had in his mind was not the idea that God had in God's mind. For God was to bring two doves forth from the Moabites and the Ammonites — Ruth the Moabitess and Naamah the Ammonitess. Even though in and , God forbade the Israelites from occupying the territory of Ammon and Moab, Rav Papa taught that the land of Ammon and Moab that Sihon conquered (as reported in ) became purified for acquisition by the Israelites through Sihon's occupation of it (as discussed in ). Explaining why Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel said that there never were in Israel more joyous days than Tu